Sujatha Fernandes

Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. She was formerly a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of several books and articles on Caribbean cultural politics, hip hop culture, and global social movements. Her new book, Curated Stories: How storytelling is hindering social change, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Sujatha Fernandes reviews 'Karl Marx: Greatness and illusion' by Gareth Stedman Jones

March 2017, no. 389 • 22 February 2017

In this 750-page tome, Gareth Stedman Jones, a British historian and former editor of New Left Review, seeks to rescue the revolutionary thinker Karl Marx from the ‘Marxism’ he sees as the creation of his long-time collaborator Friedrich Engels and to reconstruct him as part of the nineteenth-century political and philosophical context in which he existed. Given the luxury of space, Karl M ... (read more)

Sujatha Fernandes reviews 'Known and Strange Things' by Teju Cole

November 2016, no. 386 • 28 October 2016

In the opening piece of his book of collected essays, the novelist and photography critic Teju Cole feels briefly possessed by the spirit of James Baldwin who, like him, travelled outside the United States as a black writer. In every encounter, from rural Switzerland to Palestine, Rome, Rio, and Moscow, we are privy to Cole’s vantage as an embodied black subject: his seeking out of African vendo ... (read more)